Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…
This post is one of those gems that simply needs reiteration: Not that beer and the future are incompatible, heaven help us if they were, but it’s not just cell phones. Clothes, music, a whole generation of young people who, like people who think nothing of heading off to another country for a weekend techno […]
A comment made by False45th’s Flatlander, in addition to some other recent ruminations had me thinking lately about the coming(?) era of programmatic serendipity in our socially aware apps. This is something I keep hearing about in the context of Web 2.0 esp. w/r/t/ apps like Flickr, del.icio.us, and even /shudder/ things like Friendster and […]
In OS X.3 “Panther” they (re?)introduced the sidebar. Neat. Easy way of getting around. What they didn’t mention is that these sidebar items are aliases with relative paths. Say you have two volumes, “Main” and “Remote”. Main is where you do most of your work, store most of your files. Remote is for archiving, back-ups, […]
Via MeFi: This Google Maps Risk game may be the coolest use of their API yet. No, really! currently playing: Frankie O “Acid Man”
The recent re-tooling here at F_D left us with some pleasing results which (unfortunately?) illuminated Internet Explorer’s PNG-display bug. My troubleshooting searches led me to the Lovitt Methods re: dealing with PNGs and IE. Tonight, I finally got it working. Well, more/less working. It always looked good in Safari and Firefox & Mozilla — now […]
My blog is worth $3,951.78.How much is your blog worth? currently playing: Leftfield “A Final Hit”
Via Kuro5hin.org: “Toward Saner Version Control” – neat little version control redux w/ a pro-Subversion slant: Realistically speaking, it’s probably going to be twenty to fifty years before we have a software development process that doesn’t totally suck. Until then, your best bet is probably to use Subversion, write unit tests competently, and regularly chew […]
More on this problem with how IE has decided to (not) support PNG images… Spent a while this evening farting around with the Lovitt method and in particular with the “Browser Detect Lite” aspect of it… All my script output though was the fail-over: [rabbit] /sigh Resisting the temptation to replace it with a GIF. […]
Internet Explorer. Bane of many a web professional’s existence. And now, flexing its evil talons all over founddrama.net. If the above rabbit graphic looks “good” — then you’re using a good browser. If it looks bad (grey fields hanging off into space) then you’re using IE. Sorry about that; I’d heard that IE had trouble […]
Tried to resist the temptation but it just didn’t work… The whole “One More Thing” Apple special event round-up (almost all of it more/less via TUAW): iPod now featuring video capabilities. Is anyone really surprised? I still think it’s silly. Are folks going to watch copies of Lost and Desperate Housewives on the subway? Maybe […]